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LAUTENSCHLAGER & GOTT.

Tobacco Pipe.

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GUSTAV LAUTENSOHLAGER AND GEORGE L. GOTT, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

TOBACCO-PIPE.

. Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 52,297, dated January30, 1866; antedated January 17, 1866.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, GUSTAV LAUTEN- SOHLAGER and GEORGE L. GOTT, of thecity, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Smoking- Pipes; and we do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which willenable those skilled in the art to make and use the same, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawing, forming part of thisspecification.

The drawing represents a vertical central section of this invention.

It is a well-known fact that coal of any description, be it animal,vegetable, or mineral, is a superior deodorizing and absorbent agent.Based on this fact is this present invention, which consists in a bowlor saliva-reservoir for tobacco-pipes made of coal-dust prepared withpitch, rosin, or other suitable cement, and then pressed and formed insuitable molds or cut out, and finally heated to a red heat in a kiln orin an open fire.

The bowl A represented in the drawing is prepared by mixing coal-dustwith a small quantity of pitch, and after having been formed by hand itis cut and hollowed out, and finally heated to a red heat in a commonstove.

In the manufacture of this bowl we have used charcoal-dust but we do notwish to confine ourselves to any particular coal, and reserve the rightto use animal or mineral coal of any description.

In manufacturing our bowls for the trade wev propose to use suitablemolds and presses, so that the work can be performed expeditiously andwith neatness; and we also propose to build a kiln of suitabledimensions and internal construction for the purpose of burning thebowls after the same have been formed.

Abowl of this kind absorbs all the narcotic oil of the tobacco and thesaliva accumulating in the same, and the smoke which reaches the mouthof the smoker is dry and healthy.

If desired, the saliva-reservoir alone may be made of our composition,and a bowl of any other description may be used in connection with it;but we prefer to make bowl and s2.- liva-reservoir both out of ourcomposition, as previously described.

We claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent A bowl orsaliva-reservoir for a smokingpipe made of coal-dust mixed with pitch orother suitable cement and formed substantially as and for the purposesdescribed.

GUSTAV LAUTENSOHLAGER. GEORGE L. GOTT.

Witnesses M. M. LIVINGSTON, O. L. TOPLIFF.

